Residents of Kampala will have to part with a one off fee of between Shs50,000 and Shs100,000 for a house numbering exercise that starts in April.
Kampala Capital City Authority’s Director of Physical Planning Moses Atwine says the cost varies depending on the type of plate used for the signs.
Over the past 3 months, some streets and city buildings have been getting getting yellow address plates as part of a pilot project give numbers to all houses and plots in the city.
With the pilot project now complete, Kampala Capital City Authority wants to roll out the house and street numbering exercise to the suburbs.In a media briefing at media centre in Kampala, KCCA’s director of physical planning, Moses Atwine, said the move will facilitate better planning of the city.
For a fee of between Shs50,000 and Shs100,000, Kampala residents will have their houses numbered depending on the quality of signage they want. But Before the exercise fully rolls out ,there are already mixed feelings about the fees
Mulimira zone, a slum in Kampala’s suburb of Kamwokya was among the beneficiaries of the pilot project that saw about 10,000 houses numbered.
However, some residents of the area residents were suspicious of the house numbering exercise and they plucked off the plates out of fear that their houses had been marked out for demolition.
Meanwhile KCCA ’s Director of Revenue says the authority was able to raise Shs85billion in revenue last year. The growth is largely attributed to property tax collections.
KCCA’s target in the 2016-2017 financial year is to collect Shs112billion through its new aggressive policy to widen the tax base